TELEGRAM TO M. M. LASHEVICH AND K. K. YURENEV

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June 20, 1919

Lashevich,YurenevRevolutionary Military Council Eastern FrontSimbirsk

Thereare reports, first, of a considerable decrease in
the number of political workers in the armies of the
Eastern Front, because they are leaving for local
administrative work in the areas liberated from the enemy; and,
secondly, of the fatigue of some divisions. The most serious
attention must be given to this. Political workers and all
others, whoever they may be, should be absolutely forbidden
to leave the army before the Urals have been occupied, and
before they have been replaced by double the number of
Urals workers; and then at all costs you shouldsecuremobilisation en masse in the front-line area and replace the
tired units by fresh forces, if only for a temporary rest,
because theoffensiveagainst the Urals must not be weakened,
it must definitely be intensified, speeded up, strengthened
with reinforcements.Telegraph what measure you are
taking.Pay attentionto the rising near Samara and on the
Irgiz.[1]Your silence about this is suspicious.

LeninChairman, Defence Council

[1]Duringthe decisive offensive actions of the Southern Group of the
Forces of the Eastern Front against Kolchak, White Cossack and
kulak risings occurred in a number of front-line areas (Samara and
Orenburg gubernias, and the Urals Region).